The 1964 Republican Convention - Barry Goldwater and the Beginning of the Conservative Movement

Arizona senator Barry Goldwater was a staunch conservative more interested in advancing the conservative cause than running for president. A "Draft Goldwater" campaign three years in the making catapulted him to the Republican nomination in 1964, despite bitter opposition within the party. He was defeated in a landslide by Lyndon Johnson but the right had established itself as a reinvigorated force in the years to come. This is a chronicle of the 1964 Republican convention and the beginnings of the modern conservative movement.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

1-Thirty Words

2-A Tale of Two Tafts

3-Filling the Vacuum

4-The Contenders

5-The Clandestine Meeting

6-Feeling the Draft

7-The Rockefeller Campaign

8-November 22, 1963

9-The Goldwater Kitchen Cabinet

10-The Rocky Road

11-Lyndon Johnson

12-New Hampshire

13-Scranton and Romney

14-The Eisenhower Factor

15-The Battlefields

16-California

17-Cleveland

18-The Civil Rights Bill

19-San Francisco

20-The Acceptance Speech

21-Convention Myths

22-The Lion and the Lamb

Epilogue

Appendix A-1964 Primary Election Results

Appendix B-Total Primary Popular Vote

Appendix C-1964 Convention First Ballot Vote Count

Appendix D-Goldwater Acceptance Speech, July 16, 1964

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

John C. Skipper, a political reporter for the Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette, has written numerous books on politics and baseball, including a history of the The Iowa Caucuses and acclaimed biographies of Grover Cleveland Alexander, Dazzy Vance and Charlie Gehringer.

Product details

• Authors: John C. Skipper, Skipper John C.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2016
• EAN: 9780786498086
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-9808-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Political leaders & leadership, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Political leaders and leadership, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies